Eve Kirk (22 July 1900 - 1969) was a British landscape and decorative painter.
Life and career
Kirk was born in London on 22 July 1900.[1] She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1919 to 1922,[2] and later travelled to France, Italy and Greece.[1] Her first solo exhibition was at the Paterson Gallery in 1930.[3]Augustus John - who later painted her portrait - wrote an introduction to the exhibition catalogue[4] in which he said:
"With a curious swiftness and certainty she has captured a method, a technique which seems to provide a perfect means for the interpretation of the subjects of her choice, the streets, the quays and the market-places of Provence, Italy or London."[5][6]
During the Second World War, Kirk worked for civil defence in London, but continued to paint and held an exhibition in 1943 at the Leicester Galleries.[10] Her painting Bomb Damage in the City was shown as part of the exhibition of National War Pictures at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1945.[6]
She was commissioned to decorate the Roman Catholic Church of God The Holy Ghost, Penygloddfa in Newtown, Powys, in the mid-1940s.[1][11][12] In the mid-1950s she emigrated to Italy and ceased to paint.[3] She died in Siena in 1969.[1]
